1 v. (ix, 474 p., [12] leaves of plates) : 29 cm

23 sound cassettes

1 v

1 videocassette : 1/2 in

Lin and Guo family history in China; education at home, and at American Methodist School, Jiao Tong University, 1927-1931, and UC Berkeley, 1931-1933; engineer, Chinese Ministry of Railways, 1933-1945; professor of engineering, UC Berkeley, since 1946; organizing 1957 world conference, promoting prestressed concrete technology; formation of T.Y. Lin companies, construction of Caracas racetrack, Managua Bank of America, Moscone Center, Kuwait harbor, buildings in Puerto Rico, Kuala Lumpur, Phoenix; building arch and cable bridges: Hegenberger, Idaho, Kwang Du, Rio Colorado, Twin Cities Mississippi River, Kwang Fu, I-205 at Portland, and others; bridges not built, Ruck-a-Chucky, Bering Strait, Gibraltar Strait; development of Pudong project, Shanghai, 1980, and influencing Chinese leaders; comments on Buckminster Fuller, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ronald Reagan; critiques of Bay Area bridges, thoughts on optimization. Includes supplementary interviews: wife Margaret Lin on life in wartime China, life in America; colleagues Ben C. Gerwick, Jr., Mark Ketchum

Lin reviews and comments on one hundred slides covering his personal life, roof structures, building structures, girder bridges, arch bridges, cable bridges, strait crossings, and Shanghai Pudon development. The slides accompany the interview, conducted September 11, 2000 by Eleanor Swent

T.Y. and Margaret Lin at home, videographed by Suzanne Riess, Kathryn Stine, and Eleanor Swent in 2002

Includes interviews with Margaret Lin, Ben C. Gerwick, Jr., and Mark Ketchum

Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library

Volume includes index

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